Hacker News: troupo

New comment by troupo in "Apple trained its own AI model for China with help from Alibaba"

troupo — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:59:38 +0000

So, Apple has no issues following laws and regulations... as long as it's not the EU.

New comment by troupo in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

troupo — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:43:40 +0000

As the context fills up the models will happily firget and ignore any number of any sections of your CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md.

Edit:

I've had explicit instructions for communication style in CLAUDE.md, in Claude's project "memory", in global "memory", in "skills": it couldn't care less where it was. It would just ignore it.

When I would point this out it would just say "Yes, I violated communication guidelines, I won't do that again". Only to do that again in the next session.

This applies to everything: code guidelines, communication guidelines, preferences, decisions etc.

New comment by troupo in "Ask HN: What is some software that you wish existed?"

troupo — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:15:24 +0000

Stable fast software that doesn't make the supercomputers we have feel like remote terminals from 1960s.

I do read AI code

troupo — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:13:54 +0000

Article URL: https://dmitriid.com/adding-to-i-dont-read-ai-code-discourse

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259676

Points: 1

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New comment by troupo in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

troupo — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:36:04 +0000

The company that pirated books [1], and is unconditionally opting in all their users into training their AI [2] is releasing "open" models. Awwwww.

[1] 82 TB of books https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

[2] Here's a simple 12-step manusl process to opt-out on Facebook https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1794863603964891567.html

New comment by troupo in "Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us"

troupo — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:13:29 +0000

Yes, and they've spent extraordinary amount of time snd resources to be as maliciously compliant as possible.

New comment by troupo in "A 'bananas' order for 5000 obscure book titles fuels suspicion"

troupo — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:51:02 +0000

> It's enough of an improvement that they will likely still exist somewhere.

lol. A belief that a for-profit company will retain some data in its storage forever is somehow "enough of an improvement", but the proof that this actually exists isn't

New comment by troupo in "A 'bananas' order for 5000 obscure book titles fuels suspicion"

troupo — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:48:58 +0000

> on the chance there is some actual lost media in there. But if they keep the scans, or even the transcripts, that's probably an improvement on the status quo

Where can I see the scans and the transcripts in this "better status quo"?

New comment by troupo in "Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium"

troupo — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:06:52 +0000

Unless you're one of the 15+ million who are disenrolled from Medicaid. Or you're one of the 8.1% uninsured in states who didn't expand ACA: https://academic.oup.com/healthaffairsscholar/article/2/1/qx...

But sure, the poor should just stop being poor.

New comment by troupo in "Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium"

troupo — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:42:22 +0000

> EU life expectancy was 81.7 in 2024. Two years makes one of them OK and the other not?

No. We call the place with higher maternal mortality, higher infant mortality, huge number of medical bankruptices, higher untreated chronical diseases due to insurance issues etc. despite spending significantly higher on healthcare not OK

New comment by troupo in "Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium"

troupo — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:38:31 +0000

> but there's a pretty big gulf between a significant minority who can face massive financial burdens from medical care

"significant minority".

New comment by troupo in "Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium"

troupo — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:37:14 +0000

Now add in all the Americans that don't go to doctors to get treated because their insurance doesn't cover it or it's too expensive, and you're again arguing my original comment for me

New comment by troupo in "Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium"

troupo — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:34:22 +0000

> Should people with shit jobs have shit health care? No, and it's very unfortunate that this is how things work.

Coming back to my original comment.

New comment by troupo in "Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium"

troupo — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:37:04 +0000

The US is a great example of why GDP is a largely meaningless metric.

Yes, the States' GDP is ginormous, and yet it's basically a third-world country masquerading as a first-world one on most metrics that actually matter to people.

New comment by troupo in "Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium"

troupo — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:34:22 +0000

Technically correct. However, it's so closely aligned with and integrated into the EU that it's quite convenient to include it in comparisons.

Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein (EEA), and Switzerland ("Special Relationship") are basically EU in all but final official membership. They even contribute to the EU financially.

But it does look that they probably meant Sweden (according to the text of the article)

New comment by troupo in "The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011)"

troupo — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:10:39 +0000

> It is actually pretty easy to keep alive URLs if there is a will to do so. Just have tests in place

"Just".

Maintaining and keeping these tests (and the oriinal link) running is also probably easy. "Just" keep maintaining them over changes in technology, hosting providers, DNS registrars...

New comment by troupo in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"

troupo — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:52:22 +0000

And this has been shown time and again to be quite detrimental. Yes, you have to disconnect. No, disconnecting for a few hours is not a problem just because "these are messaging apps".

New comment by troupo in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"

troupo — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:31:09 +0000

> The problem is, what if one of these apps is being used as a messaging app?

How is this a problem? We've had messaging apps 24/7 for 15 years. For many millenia we didn't have them, and it was hardly ever a problem.

New comment by troupo in "Building an Advanced Agentic Harness"

troupo — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:22:48 +0000

Question: Any benchmarks showing if this actually improves problem solving? Or reduces errors?

"Answer": a word soup that in no way, shape, or form addresses the question, but does sound jargony and vague enough to be an LLM.

New comment by troupo in "Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest"

troupo — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:17:29 +0000

Depends on how the harness injects those files. All harnesses these days auto-discover "skills" and read them anyway, and inject their descriptions, at the very least. Which leads to this anyway: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183906

But yeah. You could have files with skills outside of the auto-discovered skill tree, and invoke them manually.